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Book

Author
Smyth, R. Brough
Title
The Aborigines of Victoria : with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania [Vol.1]
Volume
vol. 1 of 2
Imprint
Government Printer, Melbourne, 1878, i-lxxii, 1-483 pp
Url
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22877095M/
Description

At the end of this volumes is a "Map showing approximately some of the areas occupied by the Aboriginal tribes of Victoria". 'The names of the petty nations are printed in large letters, and the names of the tribes in Italics.'

A high resolution digital copy of this map is also available on-line at Trove Maps https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231570037/

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260